This paper studies the effects on job creation of the main local tax rates and of expenditure in some local services. With this purpose we estimate a job growth equation using a panel with more than 100 local governments during 8 years (1992-99). With the aim of bringing evidence about local...

English abstract: This article provides an examination of the two last components of the CJEU's reasoning when assessing the compatibility of domestic tax rules with the TFEU's fundamental freedoms. It argues that contrary to what many authors sustain, justification and proportionality have to...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo proporciona un análisis en profundidad de una decisión del Tribunal Constitucional portugués sobre la asignación de los ingresos de los impuestos estatales a entidades infraestatales como los municipios portugueses

Spanish Abstract: Este capítulo de libro ofrece una revisión exhaustiva de la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en lo que respecta a la compatibilidad de las normas fiscales nacionales con la libertad de establecimiento. También proporciona un examen de la...

This paper shows an estimate of the fiscal capacity of the municipalities in Mexico from two alternatives: a Macrofórmula based on the local GDP per capita (for 1.954 municipalities) and our approximation (for 1.461 municipalities) for a Representative Revenue System (RRS), Which is obtained...

In this paper we analyze the evolution and current situation of the Mexican Fiscal Federalism. Our diagnosis showed that deep structural inequalities in the country is present, both internally and in comparison with the countries of the OECD. We pointed out the low financial autonomy of the...

The second generation fiscal federalism (SGFF) approach is used as a reference to analyze the political and fiscal institutional design of Bolivia’s decentralization model and its evolution. Subnational public finance data up to 2008 is used to verify that decentralization of expenditure was...